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Time to Celebrate
October 6, 2008 2:56 PM by Joyce Ward
Today starts a week devoted to celebrating the contributions of nuclear medicine to the nation's health. This year the SNM has chosen the motto "Imagine the Future of Molecular Imaging, We can make a world of difference." Hopefully you have already made Read More...
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Bombarding Molybdenum
September 26, 2008 4:47 PM by Joyce Ward
With the current concerns about the molybdenum-99 shortages it was interesting to read in the 9-14 issue of Medical News Today that researchers at Delft University of technology in the Netherlands had received a patent for a unique way to producing that Read More...
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More Hype than Hope?
September 9, 2008 2:21 PM by Joyce Ward
It looked at first as if the problem of getting a domestic source of technetium-99m was going to be solved soon, according to the beginning of an article from another magazine that was posted on today's SNM Smart Brief. But reading the whole story, I Read More...
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Researchers Explore Fluorocarbon MRI Tracer Imaging
August 21, 2008 11:59 AM by Joyce Ward
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are looking into tracing cells within the body using fluorocarbon tagging, according to a press release on Eurekalert . While MRS can be used to identify signatures of elements in the body, it is generally considered less Read More...
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Where Have All the Companies Gone--Long Time Passing
August 1, 2008 2:15 PM by Joyce Ward
Those of you who are, like me, former members of the flower generation, may remember the song "Where Have all the Flowers Gone?" It started as a war protest song, written by Pete Seger, and was recorded by several folk groups such as the Kingston Trio Read More...
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Passage of Medicare Bill Calling for Accreditation of Facilities Applauded
July 16, 2008 1:04 PM by Joyce Ward
Both the ACR and the SNM are celebrating the passage of H. R. 6331, the Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Both houses of Congress garnered the necessary majorities to override a presidential veto of the act. The House overrode Read More...
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Great Times and Good Deeds in New Orleans
June 27, 2008 1:51 PM by Joyce Ward
New Orleans put on its best face for the technologists, physicians and scientists attending the annual SNM conference June 14-18. In return, SNM and SNMTS members gave a bit of their time and their blood to the city. Coming into New Orleans, it looked Read More...
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Take the Beads and Leave a Little Blood in New Orleans
May 28, 2008 11:27 AM by Joyce Ward
The other day I was talking to Amy Shaw, associte director of public relations at the SNM, and she told me that SNMTS and United Blood Services will come together to be "Blood Heroes" by hosting a blood drive during SNM's 55th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Read More...
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Dirtier than a Toilet?
May 15, 2008 12:01 PM by Joyce Ward
Have you looked at your keyboard lately? I usually don't, unless I accidentally spill something on it. Then I read in an article on ABC News about a study by a microbiologist in the United Kingdom that showed that the typical office keyboard had contamination Read More...
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What Did I Want in the Refrigerator?
April 16, 2008 5:30 PM by Joyce Ward
Next Monday will be my 66 th birthday and while I think my mind is as sharp as it used to be when I was a spring chicken of 55, I sometimes find myself forgetting where I put my keys or why I went over to the refrigerator. These small lapses are not new. Read More...
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Canadians Protest PET Restrictions
April 11, 2008 2:52 PM by Joyce Ward
When you look at some of the arguments for a national health care, our system is often compared unfavorably with the national health system in Canada. Generally, this is done by people who have never had to deal with that system first hand. Now it is Read More...
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CMS Strikes Out FDG for Infection Imaging
March 21, 2008 11:53 AM by Joyce Ward
In the battle to get CMS to understand the value of diagnostic imaging, this month saw one gain, the decision not to limit CTA imaging, and one loss, a decision to continue national non-coverage of FDG PET for infection and inflammation imaging. Explaining Read More...
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CTA Victory Also Helps Fusion Imaging
March 18, 2008 3:47 PM by Joyce Ward
At first glance, the furor over reimbursement for CT angiography (CTA) may not seem to be something that concerns nuclear medicine technologists. After all, the CT experts often predict that CTA could replace some of the current myocardial perfusion scans Read More...
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4,600 Karats of Garnet—That’s Some Bling
March 7, 2008 2:34 PM by Joyce Ward
Nuclear medicine technologists are used to working with crystals, such as BGO, LSO, NaI and GSO, as scintillation materials to catch gamma and positron emissions. Soon, however, they might be working beside 4,600 karats of semi-precious garnets too. This Read More...
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The Plaque is the Culprit
February 12, 2008 4:00 PM by Joyce Ward
There has been much excitement in the nuclear medicine community over the new PET imaging agents that are designed to attach to the amyloid plaque in Alzheimer's disease. Both FDDNP and the Pittsburgh compound B have shown that nuclear medicine can be Read More...
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